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I've listed my house for sale; I'm hoping to keep my losses under 10K. Ow. I'm very lucky to begin with to (a) own a house and (b) be able to soak a loss of 10K not happily but without serious suffering. I am totally in the first world problems zone here, maybe the 0.5th world problems zone. Nonetheless... Ow. Chances I will still be living here in three months? Vanishingly slim. I'm in touch with a realtor in Tucson; obviously I'm not picking a new place until I am For Sure Absolute Reals guaranteed a position there, but things look likely and I feel confident and so that's the plan I'm working with. I may even have a full house on arrival, but I don't want to jinx that too much, so I'll talk more about it later.
You may be unsurprised to hear that despite no longer being in classes at all, I am only a bit less busy than I was a month ago, thanks to work eating more of my time and having to deal with the house and Arizona stuff and all manner of nonsense and froofery. I'm way less stressed, though if you hadn't seen me a month ago you probably wouldn't believe that given how stressed I still am, but if you did, you know. :)
As part of being less stressed, and also as part of having a houseguest, I've been making more interesting food recently! I've done vegan pizza a couple of times, seitan lentil curry, vegan chicken fried steak (inspired by though different from this recipe), pancakes... we're talking about doing some kind of seitan in cherry-currant sauce over couscous tonight, though we have a bunch of oil left over from last night and we might just see what's left in the house that we can fry. :) We were mumbling about onion rings...
In the last few weeks I've learned that, upon re-reading my prose, I can usually take a few words out of every paragraph and improve the paragraph by so doing. I think this is a fine thing, as long as I remember to go and do this all the time. I suspect that some of my older writing may be hella wordy, unless using crazy long clauses is something I've picked up recently by reading crazy long-winded philosophers. Either way oh my god I keep catching myself using five words to say things like "to" or "and." ^^;; This may have something to do with why I always find myself struggling against the top edge of wordcount limits and not the bottom one... (see also last semester's 12000 word final paper, which was just ridiculous)
Speaking of which, that paper's been in submission --- revised, down to 8000 words --- to a journal for almost two and a half months. I suspect I am at least going to get a peer review back... This is exciting and also terrifying. Oh, I have a talk proposal out to a conference, too. I need to submit more of those this summer; I have a couple of papers that are some revision away from a reasonable conference talk, I think. And one paper that... man, I like the theoretical moves I was making, but I dunno about the paper as a whole. I may take one section out of it and build it into something else and let the rest go. I'm gonna sit on it for a while and then come back to it and see what I think.

I sort of feel bad now that I ended up suggesting you buy a place! I mean, granted, obviously you didn't make the purchase on my sole recommendation, but I still feel slightly responsible.

Good luck with everything.

I'm not sad I bought a place! It was a very useful experience and the tax break will offset the majority of my losses, if I am reading the tax law correctly --- if you sell within 36 months you only have to give back the tax break if you make a profit, and if you lose more than 8000, the government insulates you. So, *fingers crossed,* my net loss may only be in the $5k range.

You made the best housing decision you could on the basis of the information you had at the time. That said, I'm wincing in empathy. But going to Tucson sounds like 100% correct.

On the self-editing, if you're aware of the habit, you can start going after those roundabouts. That sort of padding does weaken an argument or distract from a point. But don't worry too much---as long as you catch them later, they're not harmless and can even be considered beneficial---they're the equivalent of "hmm"ing in your thoughts. Beware of the thing that can happen: You start noticing them as you make them, you slow down writing to edit them on the fly, and then you start tripping on yourself as a result.

Going to Tucson is in fact correct. What happens if I don't get in (highly unlikely, but I won't rule it out until I have paperwork in hand) is way up in the air right now. But I am planning for my most likely situation because that's the best use of my energy; I have a little bit of thought about what happens if things explode, and that's all I need.

I'm not super worried about the writing tics. Even if I don't catch them in revision, someone else will; I generally have someone go over my papers and I can just select for folks who have a good eye for that stuff. :) I'm just not sure if they're something I've always done and I only noticed recently, or if they're something I've picked up recently.

I used to run through with search looking for all words ending in -ly and other tic-words. You're fortunate to have readers!

Two moves in such a short time. Be good to yourself, please!

Meant to mention about food: grilled (bbq'd) tofu recipe.

Good luck with the move Rax, so soon after the last one, my heart goes out to you.

Wishing you a happier summer, and mad luck with this real estate/relocation subplot. <3

You may be unsurprised to hear that despite no longer being in classes at all, I am only a bit less busy than I was a month ago...

Heh, no, I'm not surprised. Good luck with the move, I can't imagine being able to handle something like that with grace! :)

I hope everything goes smoothly.

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